A question and an observation... Can anyone recomend (or point me to) which CDROMs have an S/PDIF output that is stable during pause, seek, etc. I think that stable S/PDIF is necessary regardless of whether the CDROM is connected to an MD recorder or a sound card. The S/PDIF receiver chip (the most popular are Crystal CS8412 & CS8414) has a PLL to extract the clock signal, which requires a finite amount of lock time. It *does not* lock on the first frame! That said, I have to give poor marks to the S/PDIF inputs on the Sony MDS-PC2. They are unable to lock to the S/PDIF from an M Audio DIO2448 and they MDS-PC2 requires longer than it should to lock to to CDROM's S/PDIF after it glitches. This may have to do with the fact that it tries to lay down (multiple) track marks when the S/PDIF lock is shaky. (M Audio tech support did finally get back to me, stating that Sony products were known to have problems sometimes with accepting S/PDIF from non-Sony.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
